Contents Foreword -----.....- - IV Chapter I Beginnings ------- 1 II Growth, 1827-1851 ----- 9 III Ministries of William Meek and James Arminius Richey , 1852- 1867 --------- 18 IV Ministry of Joseph Churchill Cox 27 V Five Pastorates, 1875-1900 - - 35 VI The Parish in the Present Century --------45 Appendices: 1. Extracts from the Diary of Henry Jones Cundall 55 2. Biographical Sketches of Clergy ----- 57 3. Parish Registers -----------63 4. Memorials, Gifts, Endowments ------ 64 Bibliography --------------65 A sketch of the present St . Thomas Church appears on the front cover. The map used on the end papers is a section from "Map of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St . Lawr¬ ence ... By George Wright , Esq., Surveyor General, 1852, with corrections and additions to 1859 by H. J. Cundall , L.S ." Courtesy of Public Archives of Canada 111